If information is power, John Hedley was at the center of it. With an intelligence career spanning nearly 50 years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John worked on matters related to Soviet foreign policy, compiled the President’s daily brief, and determined which CIA agents’ stories would become public as the chairman of the CIA’s publication review board.

“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.”